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Parenting Coordination
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Parenting coordination is a service provided by a Mental Health |
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Professional, with 20 hours of formal standardized training in
Parenting Coordination, 40 hours of training in Family Mediation and
documented experience, knowledge and training in parenting, parent
education, and child development. This service is applicable and
appropriate for divorcing and post-divorce parents who meet the
criteria for high conflict in the eyes of the court. High conflict
is a term that would be applicable in circumstances where the
parents have a chronic and long-term difficult time in resolving
disagreements and conflicts during the divorce process and/or post
divorce. This term is applicable to parents whose conflicts have not
been mostly resolved one to three years after the divorce is final.
It would also be applicable for parents whose conflict would be
considered by the court as significantly more intense or more
long-lived than in most cases.
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Not to be confused with family therapy, Parenting Coordination is a
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process designed to focus on resolving problems between the parents, and
to assist them in developing a Parenting Plan with the driving force
being the best interests of the child or children involved. This is the
process parents may turn to when all other efforts to resolve how
conflicts have failed./font>
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As described in the proposed legislation:
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(From the August 15th, 2003 draft of Parenting Coordination standards |
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a work in progress prepared for consideration at the FLAFCC Parenting
Coordination Training and Legislative Summit.) “Parenting Coordination”
is a process whereby an impartial third person called a Parenting
Coordinator helps the parties to implement their parenting plan by
facilitating the resolution of disputes between parents and/or legal
guardians providing education, making recommendations to the parties,
and, with the prior approval the parties and the court, making decisions
within the scope of the court order appointment. |
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A "Shared Parenting Plan" is either a temporary
or final order |
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established by the Court setting up the residence,
parental responsibility, visitation and other parental responsibility issues
in a dissolution of marriage proceeding or any other civil action involving
custody or parenting of children. |
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The Court may appoint a Parenting Coordinator after due notice and
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its own motion or motions of a party if, from the pleadings and
orders of record, or evidence, it finds:
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the parties failed to adequately implement their shared parenting plan in
relation to the child or children who are the subjects of the proceedings,
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mediation has not been successful or has been determined by the
judge to be inappropriate, and |
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the appointment of a Parenting Coordinator is in the
best interests of the child or children involved in the proceedings.
Notwithstanding the above, the Court may appoint a Parenting Coordinator
by agreement of the parties.
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The primary duty of the Parenting Coordinator is to implement the |
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shared
parenting plan by facilitating the resolution of disputes between
parents or legal guardians, providing education, making recommendations,
and with the approval of the parties and the court, making decisions
within the scope of the court order appointment in the dissolution of
marriage proceeding or any other civil action involving custody or
parenting of children the process shall not be used to change the shared
parenting plan by changing the primary residence apparent or
substantially altering the contact by the other parent, except by
consent of the party that with court approval. Each party involved in
the parenting coordination process has the right to consult an attorney
in any stage of the process. |
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